Night at Nationals Park: Mets-Nats Tonight

After a few weeks of waiting through a busy April, I’m finally making my way to Nationals Park tonight. I wasn’t anticipating wearing any Mets garb but in light of their recent six game win-streak, I find myself in a bit of a bind. Wearing blue and orange tonight would go against this mini-boycott I have going. On the other hand, I’ve got Nats tickets so the Wilpons won’t see a dime. Essentially, when you see your boyhood team winning (even if they are still under .500), there are times when logic gives way to emotion.

I’m often cynical about the Amazins and their ability to make anything constructive of the problems they now face. I am unapologetic, as most Mets fans are, regarding my disdain for the Wilpons. I hope that they will make a wise decision and sell, ending months of embarrassing press that has stained the team’s reputation (what was left of it anyway). But I can say that Sandy Alderson is not messing around. He has a vision for this team that is completely his and makes no excuses for it. Win or lose in 2011, Alderson is convinced he has the right strategy for success in the coming years, whether the money is available or not. Happy for me, that’s what I’ve always said about the Mets. They’re better off acting as a small-market juggernaut rather than a Bronx doppleganger.

So tonight, despite my deepest reservations, I will be wearing #7. We all anticipate Reyes being shipped out by the trade deadline so I’m going to take this opportunity to wear his uniform perhaps one last time. Perhaps we can win seven in a row. Now that I’ve said it, all Mets fans can let me have it when the team falls flat later tonight. I expect I will do a fair amount of tweeting, in between shoving Ben’s Chili Bowl in my mouth and taking pictures of soon-to-be former Mets. However, if the Mets are on the verge of ending this streak and it is a save situation, Storen better be on the pitching slab at the beginning of the ninth.

Mets Boycott suspended until the final out. I reserve the right to reinstate this thing at any point during the game and because I will actually be in attendance, I fully expect I will.LETS GO METS!